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Hobbies: Quilting

Looking to pick up a new hobby? Quilting might be the one for you! It’s fun, creative, and relatively easy for beginners, and there’s a huge bonus: it’s a wonderful item to pass down in your family! Also, you can make quilts out of anything. I have a friend who has a quilt made out of a bunch of his souvenir old T-shirts from whatever places he traveled from when he was a little kid. He loves it!

Quilting’s history began in a time when there was a shortage of fabric and when electricity wasn’t around to keep people warm. Worn out items were recycled into quilts and made by women when they were taking a break from their heavier chores. Nowadays people quilt more as a way to express themselves than financial reasons, but what can beat recycling and turning something into a keepsake? Or what can beat a trip to the fabric store and picking and choosing what to match!

Now the hobby translates to much more than just blankets: placemats, wall hangings, cushion covers, diaper totes, cases for your eyeglasses–even make up bags! They can all be quilted. There’s quilting patterns for nearly everything.

Just like a puzzle, you’ll find yourself piecing together items, fitting them snugly together, and creating something new from scratch!

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2 thoughts on “Hobbies: Quilting”

ooh I LOVE quilting – it’s one of my main hobbies- I’m sorta off and on as time permits but mostly ‘on’! The quilt puzzles are what hooked me my first visit to puzzlewarehouse – they’re the reason I have so many sunsout puzzles – I typed in puzzle thinking 1-2 might show up but instead about 20 pages popped up! and I’m a sucker for quilts- and now I see there are some I don’t have – yet. In fact the other day I pulled out this one to start http://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/Country-Autumn-62937so.html ok don’t ask me why it’s nearly summer and I picked a fall quilt but I liked the house and the entire theme with all the flowers and color tucked in and the doggy. this puzzle here is probably my favorite picture – wish it were 500 pieces but still..one of these days it’s gonna get done! http://www.puzzlewarehouse.com/Floating-Over-Sisters-14660so.html to me it’s probably one of the prettiest scenes ever on a puzzle!
oh and that bulldog in your last phone I think is one of the free choices when you buy 3 Sunsout puzzles – I had it in my cart last month but decided to wait and see if a couple of puzzles came back in stock before ordering